Closing Time | Fire on the Side - Sargasso

Voordat Tori Amos een krolse pianogodin werd, beproefde ze haar geluk in een jaren ’80 haar-band. De naam was een zinspeling op Amos’ moeite met het lezen van noten, iets dat haar d’r plek op het Peabody Institute heeft gekost. De band maakte welgeteld één plaat, die een enorme flop werd. Gelukkig maar, want anders […]

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I'd never noticed just how similar early Tori Amos was to Kate Bush until I actually listened to a Kate Bush album ("Hounds of Love"). And, I just gotta say, yeah, Tori's first project, Y Kant Tori Read, **totally** aped Kate's style. I think the label just had no idea what to do with Tori, so they did that.

#ToriAmos #KateBush #YKantToriRead #music

Today I was listening to the self-titled album by Y Kant Tori Read (1988)
#music #listening #YKantToriRead #ToriAmos
'Of an Age' Finds '90s Queer Love in a Somewhat Hopeful Place

“Being the two people in a crowded room that have this secret between you is...very poignant and romantic,” says the movie's writer-director Goran Stolevski.

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Yesterday, on Black Friday, I ventured out to one of my local indie record shops to score a release I've been waiting to see in print for at least 20 yrs of #ToriAmos fandom. Maybe I'm a 'horrible person' for partaking in Black Friday at all (which I normally don't do), but getting a release I'd been wanting for /aaages/ while supporting #RecordStoreDay & a local business, I feel pretty damn awesome. 😁

#RSDBlackFriday #RSD #YKantToriRead #YKTR

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